illumination

So. I just “tweeted” for the first time. It’s okay, you can put away the champagne.

I’ve been wondering lately, how the hell did I get so behind on this technology stuff? I’ve never been on the bleeding edge of anything, but I’ve almost always at least been on the knife. Now I feel like I’m on the spoon that’s eating the ice cream for dessert. But here’s the thing:

I’ve *never* been up on the pop-culture stuff. And blogs and Twitter and a gazillion other things that the rest of the world has already adopted have become pop-culture. Tweeting doesn’t make you a dork, it makes you a social networker. And I guess I’m jumping on the social networking bandwagon.

In other news, thanks to Twitter, I learned that Google’s moving Gmail and most (all?) of the Google Apps suite out of Beta. I just need to add here that Gmail launched on April 1, 2004 as an invitation-only service, and I received my invite on April 22, 2004, when they were still going on eBay for $100+ (no, I didn’t pay for mine, it came directly from Google). I really was on top of the technology stuff, once upon a time.

And once upon *this* time, well, I realized today that having set up Twitter to update my Facebook status and having at least figured out what I’ll need to do to get my Twitter feed displayed on this blog, there were no more technological barriers to my tweeting. Instead, I had only to overcome my self-consciousness about how narcissistic I’d have to be to spam all you lovely readers with updates on my mundane life. But now I can check that box off! And if I ever actually tweet again, you all can be just as voyeuristic as you please.

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